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Jason Coskrey

Jason Coskrey is a sports writer for The Japan Times. His primary focus is Japanese baseball, but he has also covered soccer, American football, boxing and basketball. He previously worked for the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Ga. A native of Detroit, he is a graduate of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 26, 2012

Ortiz hits go-ahead home run as Lions edge Eagles

Jose Ortiz spent the first part of this season playing in Mexico, where he said he wasn't really doing too well.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Sep 25, 2012

Balentien at ease as race for CL home run crown heats up

As Tokyo Yakult Swallows slugger Wladimir Balentien went through his pregame stretching, he surveyed the field where the newly minted Central League champion Yomiuri Giants were wrapping up batting practice and barely suppressed a laugh while noting, "everything has gone right for them this year."

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Sep 24, 2012

Race for Pacific League crown likely going down to wire

The Yomiuri Giants wrapped up the Central League pennant last week.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 22, 2012

Giants clinch 34th Central League pennant

For the last two years, the Yomiuri Giants have watched another team celebrate. Watched as another group of players paraded around the field clutching the Central League pennant.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Sep 18, 2012

Celebration of Kanemoto's career offers Tigers brief respite

For the next couple of weeks, the prevailing narrative of most Hanshin Tigers games will be the impending retirement of star outfielder Tomoaki Kanemoto.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 15, 2012

Sakamoto ignites Giants in comeback victory over archrival Tigers

This close to the prize, the Yomiuri Giants aren't about to let anyone slow their march toward the Central League pennant.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 13, 2012

MLB scouts keeping their eyes on quartet of potential Japanese free agents

This season there are a few NPB players who have fulfilled the requirements for international free agency (meaning they are free to negotiate with any team, domestic or abroad) and may attempt to follow in the successful footsteps of Yu Darvish and Norichika Aoki and make a move to the major leagues...

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BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Sep 11, 2012

Darvish, others have decisions to make ahead of next WBC

The big news last week was that the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association decided to compete in next year's World Baseball Classic.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 5, 2012

'Sho Time' delivers Fighters past Eagles

The Hokkaido Nippon Fighters nearly broke through against Manabu Mima after a double by Sho Nakata in the sixth inning.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 5, 2012

Japanese baseball union approves participation in 2013 WBC

After weeks of uncertainty, the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association has decided to participate in next year's World Baseball Classic, it was revealed on Tuesday.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Sep 4, 2012

Lions pounce at right time to take control of Pacific League

All season the Seibu Lions have put the 'cats have nine lives' theory to the test, and so far the Pacific League's resident felines are still kicking.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 2, 2012

Ota's versatility, productivity ignite Giants

Taishi Ota made up for lost time in his first game back from the farm team.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 1, 2012

Giants' Koyama picks up first career victory

Neither Yuki Koyama nor Tokyo Dome existed in 1981, the year the Giants are currently celebrating with their throwback uniforms.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Aug 28, 2012

Houlton feels good about '12 Giants

D.J. Houlton is dealing with a case of deja vu.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 21, 2012

NPB may have solution to WBC problem

Perhaps Nippon Professional Baseball has come up with something that will finally convince the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association to reverse course and compete in the next World Baseball Classic.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Aug 21, 2012

Takahashi's 300th homer bittersweet

Yoshinobu Takahashi looked more relieved than happy after his 300th home run. Many fans and observers had expected it to come earlier in his career, before later wondering if it would come at all. That helped give the moment feelings of both admiration and incompletion.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 20, 2012

Yokohama star Ramirez keeps family close to his heart

Alex Ramirez is dressed in his full uniform and standing a few feet in front of the Yokohama BayStars clubhouse, but baseball is the furthest thing from his mind right now.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 18, 2012

Takahashi slugs 300th homer in win over Carp

Injuries have plagued Yoshinobu Takahashi for much of what was once a promising career with the Yomiuri Giants.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Jul 24, 2012

Abe, Matsuda stand out among NPB players

With another NPB All-Star Series in the books, Japanese baseball shifts its attention back to the pennant races in the Central and Pacific Leagues.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jul 22, 2012

Yokohama's Miura values long tenure with BayStars

Daisuke Miura didn't really take to being called "Hama no Bancho" initially.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.

If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami

By Alex K.T. Martin

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Tsukuba massif granite, one of the world’s few heritage stones

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